Archiving/deletion of material master record from Plant

Hi Experts,
I have 50000 materials in 0001 Plnat and recently created a new plant 0002. I transfered 2000 materials from 0001 to 0002. In this scenario when I run a report in Plant 0001, all the 5000 materials are appearing, which i dont want to see the transfered 2000 materials.
I tried with Archieving with SARA transaction but material is archived at Client level only, not at Plant level. Now I want to change the Material type (FERT)of those 2000 materials which are transferred to Plant 0002 to other material type(HALB). Can you please explain the chanllenges in this process ? or suggest other process.
Regards,
Bhagavan.

Hi,
You can change material type using transaction MMAM.
In this case systemw ill check the material should not have any inevntory posting.
It should not have a valuated stock.
New material type sgould support same amount of material views as old one ( it might have other master data present like purchasing info record).
Edited by: santosh sarda on Nov 12, 2010 5:32 PM

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